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Papers by Kimberly Katz
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2013
researchers, students and the general public. The scope of primary sources, including photographs... more researchers, students and the general public. The scope of primary sources, including photographs, texts and caricatures, is impressive and indicates thorough research. The author used a semiotic research method to analyse these sources and tried to “read” the clothing as a language, while examining the attitude of people who lived during this period toward the Israeli dress culture. The book’s contribution is in that it skilfully connects between dress and society and vice versa, and uses dress to expose the social context of the State in its early years. It takes the reader on a fascinating journey of acquaintance with the array of social aspects during this period: culture, identity, ethnic relations, military, economy, religion, social boundaries, politics, generation and gender differences, trends of inclusion and exclusion, verbal and nonverbal communication, and more. The book illuminates the role of dress in the Israeli project of building a nation, at the national representative level, as well as the way in which dress patterns were moulded among broad social strata. This is a social history of everyday life, which does not focus on the political and social thought of the elites, but rather on the lower statuses, who according to this viewpoint comprise an active and influencing factor on the action of the ruling stratum. The picture obtained from the analytical analysis in this book is that secondary groups managed to challenge the hegemonic model of austere clothing, and to express their ideology by means of their fashionable dress. The challenge illuminates the ambivalence at the root of Zionist ideology from the onset: between the aspiration to “be as all nations” and the desire to be “a spiritual guide for the nations.” Over the years, the dictates of Western fashion which permeated the state in its early years became the main Israeli dress pattern, indicating that “something that begins as a fashion can turn into a tradition.” The book is recommended for anyone interested in fashion, moulding of the collective identity, the history of the State of Israel, and the emergent (informal) cultural pluralism in the early years of the state, as symbolically reflected in the coat of many colours of Joseph, beloved son of Jacob: one garment with many colours.
The American Historical Review, 2008
The American Historical Review, 2013
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2004
The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews is Benny Morris's latest scholarly... more The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews is Benny Morris's latest scholarly endeavor to shed light on the events surrounding the 1948 Palestine war. Although, as he notes in his Introduction, it was in Jordan where Glubb, a British general-on-loan to (Trans)Jordan from 1930 to 1956 and leader of the Jordanian Arab Legion, made his main contribution to history, Morris focuses on how Glubb Pasha's actions affected Zionists during the Mandate period and, subsequently, in the State of Israel. The main point of departure for Morris is the notion that Glubb may have been anti-Semitic, thus adversely affecting the Zionists' efforts to establish their state. Yet in reading this book, the reader should pay careful attention to the author's approach, his choice of sources, and his political priorities, all of which inform the book and call into question the allegation of anti-Semitism.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2016
Review of Middle East Studies, 2016
Patricia Romero was born on 28 July 1934 and raised in Ohio. She earned her B.S. at Central State... more Patricia Romero was born on 28 July 1934 and raised in Ohio. She earned her B.S. at Central State University in Education in 1964 while raising three boys. She chose Central State, a Historically Black University, both for its proximity and also, according to her middle son Arthur, for the “energy that was manifest in the burgeoning civil rights movement.” After graduating, she pursued her Master's degree at Miami University of Ohio in 1965, while raising her sons on her own and taking on a teaching role at Central State University. Ohio would round out Dr. Romero's education as she completed her Ph.D. in African History at The Ohio State University in 1971. She worked as a research assistant at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, in Washington, D.C., to which she contributed a volume to its series, I Too Am America (1969), and as Editorial Director for United Publishing Company. She coauthored or edited four books during those years about Bla...
The Journal of North African Studies, 2012
... Arab writers from Syria to Egypt to Tunisia employed both of these kinds of writing during th... more ... Arab writers from Syria to Egypt to Tunisia employed both of these kinds of writing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and such ... View all notes. So incensed by the situation in Libya was Young Tunisians' leader c Ali Bash Hanba, that he set out to gather ...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2006
... of the Egyptian writers ↩Ali Mubarak (↩Alam al-din) and Muhammad al-Muwaylihi (Hadith ↩Isa ib... more ... of the Egyptian writers ↩Ali Mubarak (↩Alam al-din) and Muhammad al-Muwaylihi (Hadith ↩Isa ibn Hisham) are cited as ... DOI: 10.1017.S0020743806381081 LARBI SADIKI, The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (New York: Columbia University ...
Kimberly Katz explores the role of Jerusalem's holy places in the process of creating a disti... more Kimberly Katz explores the role of Jerusalem's holy places in the process of creating a distinct national identity in Jordan from 1948 to 1967. The time period marks Jordan's control over Jerusalem, including the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish holy sites in the Old City. Katz shows that the governing Hashemite leaders co-opted the religious importance of Jerusalem to refashion Jordan's image following the 1948 War in Palestine around the holy places, located in the newly enlarged kingdom. The Hashemites faced serious questions about their political legitimacy after being installed by the British as rulers in a demarcated region that had no historical precedent as a political entity. To promote their own legitimacy and that of the newly created state, the leaders employed state-issued cultural artifacts to define both the state and the nation. With the support and blessing of the West, they not only exploited the traditional religious appeal of Jerusalem in speeches and pu...
Journal of Palestine Studies, 2015
Urban History
ABSTRACTThe story of Hebron during the 1948 Palestine War remains largely untold, obscured by the... more ABSTRACTThe story of Hebron during the 1948 Palestine War remains largely untold, obscured by the larger historical forces of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and refugee crisis that resulted from Israel's declaration of independence. This article examines the history and historiography of Hebron from mid-May 1948 until the departure of Egyptian troops from the country on 30 April 1949, a period referred to as the ‘Dual Era’, an unusual configuration between Jordan and Egypt in which both countries temporarily ruled over the city. It analyses the Dual Era against an emerging Egyptian and Jordanian proto-pan-Arab nationalism as each country's locally based leaders vied for support for their rule from the Palestinian population in Hebron.
Journal of Urban History, 2008
JENS HANSSEN, Fin De Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford: Clarendo... more JENS HANSSEN, Fin De Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. vi, 307, illustrations, graph, tables, bibliography, index, 95.00cloth.KEITHDAVIDWATENPAUGH,BeingModernintheMiddleEast:Revolution,Nationalism,Colonialism,andtheArabMiddleClass.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2006,pp.vii,325,illustrations,tables,maps,95.00 cloth. KEITH DAVID WATENPAUGH, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. vii, 325, illustrations, tables, maps, 95.00cloth.KEITHDAVIDWATENPAUGH,BeingModernintheMiddleEast:Revolution,Nationalism,Colonialism,andtheArabMiddleClass.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2006,pp.vii,325,illustrations,tables,maps,35.00 cloth. CHRISTA SALAMANDRA, A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 199, illustrations, map, bibliography, index, 49.95cloth,49.95 cloth, 49.95cloth,21.95 paper.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the …, 2003
... The other locations on the pilgrimage schedule in 2000 were: An-jara (local shrine at the Rom... more ... The other locations on the pilgrimage schedule in 2000 were: An-jara (local shrine at the Roman Catholic Church), the Citadel, Amman (church remains from the Byzantine era), Tel Mar Elias (Shrine of the Prophet Elijah), Mu-kawer (the site where John the Baptist was ...
III, address the subject of visitors to the Holy City and their lodgings in the second half of th... more III, address the subject of visitors to the Holy City and their lodgings in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. They largely exclude developments in hospitality and hotels in the New City of Jerusalem, whose neighborhoods, along with hotels and hospices, emerged at the same time (p. xiii). They trace the growth of a modern hospitality industry out of Christian pilgrims' journeys to the Holy Land, a practice dating back to ancient times (p. 27). The book is the eleventh volume of the Palestine Exploration Fund's (PEF) Annual Monograph series (on hiatus from 1953–2007). Its main research target is the hotel where important explorers and excavators, notably Charles Warren (Underground Jerusalem, 1876) and Claude Reignier Conder (The Survey of Western Palestine, 1881), lodged in nineteenth-century Jerusalem. The coauthors focus on the history of the Mediterranean Hotel, which had three locations across the medieval city, the second of which became a focal point and resulted in a years-long search for information. The PEF archives and contemporary letters and diaries of Mark Twain ultimately provided the key to unlocking the mystery of the Mediterranean's second location. By expanding their scope to include other hotels, the authors construct a history of the hotel industry during the second half of the nineteenth century. The source material gathered from the hotels' guests not only tells the story of the hotels, but also revisits the story of modern pilgrimage, secular tourism, and the entry of Thomas Cook & Son (the British company that made organized tourism relatively affordable to increased segments of the European population for the first time) into Palestine as well as other parts of the Middle East. With that came opportunism and rivalry by a Cook employee, the development of the dragoman/guiding business, and the hotel as hospital (prior to the development of modern hospitals). Scholars of biblical and modern archaeology, members of the PEF, and litterateurs all contributed to this title to illuminate the history of hotels and life for foreign visitors in Jerusalem during this time.
The Review of Politics, 2003
This article presents a microhistory of an early 20th-century Tunisian intellectual, Salih Suways... more This article presents a microhistory of an early 20th-century Tunisian intellectual, Salih Suwaysi, within the context of cross-regional (Maghrib–Mashriq) literary and intellectual trends. Analyzing Suwaysi’s use of the conventional literary genre of maq¯am¯at illustrates his deep understanding of the problems caused by France’s occupation of Tunisia and highlights the significance of historical and contemporary urban space for the author. Revitalized during the nahda period, maq¯am¯at were employed by writers to address issues and problems facing contemporary society, in contrast to some of the earlier maq¯am¯at that focused on language and language structure
more than on narrative content. Suwaysi followed his eastern Mediterranean, especially Egyptian, contemporaries in turning to this genre to convey his critical commentaries on social, religious, and political life under the French Protectorate in Tunisia.
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2013
researchers, students and the general public. The scope of primary sources, including photographs... more researchers, students and the general public. The scope of primary sources, including photographs, texts and caricatures, is impressive and indicates thorough research. The author used a semiotic research method to analyse these sources and tried to “read” the clothing as a language, while examining the attitude of people who lived during this period toward the Israeli dress culture. The book’s contribution is in that it skilfully connects between dress and society and vice versa, and uses dress to expose the social context of the State in its early years. It takes the reader on a fascinating journey of acquaintance with the array of social aspects during this period: culture, identity, ethnic relations, military, economy, religion, social boundaries, politics, generation and gender differences, trends of inclusion and exclusion, verbal and nonverbal communication, and more. The book illuminates the role of dress in the Israeli project of building a nation, at the national representative level, as well as the way in which dress patterns were moulded among broad social strata. This is a social history of everyday life, which does not focus on the political and social thought of the elites, but rather on the lower statuses, who according to this viewpoint comprise an active and influencing factor on the action of the ruling stratum. The picture obtained from the analytical analysis in this book is that secondary groups managed to challenge the hegemonic model of austere clothing, and to express their ideology by means of their fashionable dress. The challenge illuminates the ambivalence at the root of Zionist ideology from the onset: between the aspiration to “be as all nations” and the desire to be “a spiritual guide for the nations.” Over the years, the dictates of Western fashion which permeated the state in its early years became the main Israeli dress pattern, indicating that “something that begins as a fashion can turn into a tradition.” The book is recommended for anyone interested in fashion, moulding of the collective identity, the history of the State of Israel, and the emergent (informal) cultural pluralism in the early years of the state, as symbolically reflected in the coat of many colours of Joseph, beloved son of Jacob: one garment with many colours.
The American Historical Review, 2008
The American Historical Review, 2013
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2004
The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews is Benny Morris's latest scholarly... more The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews is Benny Morris's latest scholarly endeavor to shed light on the events surrounding the 1948 Palestine war. Although, as he notes in his Introduction, it was in Jordan where Glubb, a British general-on-loan to (Trans)Jordan from 1930 to 1956 and leader of the Jordanian Arab Legion, made his main contribution to history, Morris focuses on how Glubb Pasha's actions affected Zionists during the Mandate period and, subsequently, in the State of Israel. The main point of departure for Morris is the notion that Glubb may have been anti-Semitic, thus adversely affecting the Zionists' efforts to establish their state. Yet in reading this book, the reader should pay careful attention to the author's approach, his choice of sources, and his political priorities, all of which inform the book and call into question the allegation of anti-Semitism.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2016
Review of Middle East Studies, 2016
Patricia Romero was born on 28 July 1934 and raised in Ohio. She earned her B.S. at Central State... more Patricia Romero was born on 28 July 1934 and raised in Ohio. She earned her B.S. at Central State University in Education in 1964 while raising three boys. She chose Central State, a Historically Black University, both for its proximity and also, according to her middle son Arthur, for the “energy that was manifest in the burgeoning civil rights movement.” After graduating, she pursued her Master's degree at Miami University of Ohio in 1965, while raising her sons on her own and taking on a teaching role at Central State University. Ohio would round out Dr. Romero's education as she completed her Ph.D. in African History at The Ohio State University in 1971. She worked as a research assistant at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, in Washington, D.C., to which she contributed a volume to its series, I Too Am America (1969), and as Editorial Director for United Publishing Company. She coauthored or edited four books during those years about Bla...
The Journal of North African Studies, 2012
... Arab writers from Syria to Egypt to Tunisia employed both of these kinds of writing during th... more ... Arab writers from Syria to Egypt to Tunisia employed both of these kinds of writing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and such ... View all notes. So incensed by the situation in Libya was Young Tunisians' leader c Ali Bash Hanba, that he set out to gather ...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2006
... of the Egyptian writers ↩Ali Mubarak (↩Alam al-din) and Muhammad al-Muwaylihi (Hadith ↩Isa ib... more ... of the Egyptian writers ↩Ali Mubarak (↩Alam al-din) and Muhammad al-Muwaylihi (Hadith ↩Isa ibn Hisham) are cited as ... DOI: 10.1017.S0020743806381081 LARBI SADIKI, The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (New York: Columbia University ...
Kimberly Katz explores the role of Jerusalem's holy places in the process of creating a disti... more Kimberly Katz explores the role of Jerusalem's holy places in the process of creating a distinct national identity in Jordan from 1948 to 1967. The time period marks Jordan's control over Jerusalem, including the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish holy sites in the Old City. Katz shows that the governing Hashemite leaders co-opted the religious importance of Jerusalem to refashion Jordan's image following the 1948 War in Palestine around the holy places, located in the newly enlarged kingdom. The Hashemites faced serious questions about their political legitimacy after being installed by the British as rulers in a demarcated region that had no historical precedent as a political entity. To promote their own legitimacy and that of the newly created state, the leaders employed state-issued cultural artifacts to define both the state and the nation. With the support and blessing of the West, they not only exploited the traditional religious appeal of Jerusalem in speeches and pu...
Journal of Palestine Studies, 2015
Urban History
ABSTRACTThe story of Hebron during the 1948 Palestine War remains largely untold, obscured by the... more ABSTRACTThe story of Hebron during the 1948 Palestine War remains largely untold, obscured by the larger historical forces of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and refugee crisis that resulted from Israel's declaration of independence. This article examines the history and historiography of Hebron from mid-May 1948 until the departure of Egyptian troops from the country on 30 April 1949, a period referred to as the ‘Dual Era’, an unusual configuration between Jordan and Egypt in which both countries temporarily ruled over the city. It analyses the Dual Era against an emerging Egyptian and Jordanian proto-pan-Arab nationalism as each country's locally based leaders vied for support for their rule from the Palestinian population in Hebron.
Journal of Urban History, 2008
JENS HANSSEN, Fin De Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford: Clarendo... more JENS HANSSEN, Fin De Siècle Beirut: The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. vi, 307, illustrations, graph, tables, bibliography, index, 95.00cloth.KEITHDAVIDWATENPAUGH,BeingModernintheMiddleEast:Revolution,Nationalism,Colonialism,andtheArabMiddleClass.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2006,pp.vii,325,illustrations,tables,maps,95.00 cloth. KEITH DAVID WATENPAUGH, Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. vii, 325, illustrations, tables, maps, 95.00cloth.KEITHDAVIDWATENPAUGH,BeingModernintheMiddleEast:Revolution,Nationalism,Colonialism,andtheArabMiddleClass.Princeton:PrincetonUniversityPress,2006,pp.vii,325,illustrations,tables,maps,35.00 cloth. CHRISTA SALAMANDRA, A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 199, illustrations, map, bibliography, index, 49.95cloth,49.95 cloth, 49.95cloth,21.95 paper.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the …, 2003
... The other locations on the pilgrimage schedule in 2000 were: An-jara (local shrine at the Rom... more ... The other locations on the pilgrimage schedule in 2000 were: An-jara (local shrine at the Roman Catholic Church), the Citadel, Amman (church remains from the Byzantine era), Tel Mar Elias (Shrine of the Prophet Elijah), Mu-kawer (the site where John the Baptist was ...
III, address the subject of visitors to the Holy City and their lodgings in the second half of th... more III, address the subject of visitors to the Holy City and their lodgings in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. They largely exclude developments in hospitality and hotels in the New City of Jerusalem, whose neighborhoods, along with hotels and hospices, emerged at the same time (p. xiii). They trace the growth of a modern hospitality industry out of Christian pilgrims' journeys to the Holy Land, a practice dating back to ancient times (p. 27). The book is the eleventh volume of the Palestine Exploration Fund's (PEF) Annual Monograph series (on hiatus from 1953–2007). Its main research target is the hotel where important explorers and excavators, notably Charles Warren (Underground Jerusalem, 1876) and Claude Reignier Conder (The Survey of Western Palestine, 1881), lodged in nineteenth-century Jerusalem. The coauthors focus on the history of the Mediterranean Hotel, which had three locations across the medieval city, the second of which became a focal point and resulted in a years-long search for information. The PEF archives and contemporary letters and diaries of Mark Twain ultimately provided the key to unlocking the mystery of the Mediterranean's second location. By expanding their scope to include other hotels, the authors construct a history of the hotel industry during the second half of the nineteenth century. The source material gathered from the hotels' guests not only tells the story of the hotels, but also revisits the story of modern pilgrimage, secular tourism, and the entry of Thomas Cook & Son (the British company that made organized tourism relatively affordable to increased segments of the European population for the first time) into Palestine as well as other parts of the Middle East. With that came opportunism and rivalry by a Cook employee, the development of the dragoman/guiding business, and the hotel as hospital (prior to the development of modern hospitals). Scholars of biblical and modern archaeology, members of the PEF, and litterateurs all contributed to this title to illuminate the history of hotels and life for foreign visitors in Jerusalem during this time.
The Review of Politics, 2003
This article presents a microhistory of an early 20th-century Tunisian intellectual, Salih Suways... more This article presents a microhistory of an early 20th-century Tunisian intellectual, Salih Suwaysi, within the context of cross-regional (Maghrib–Mashriq) literary and intellectual trends. Analyzing Suwaysi’s use of the conventional literary genre of maq¯am¯at illustrates his deep understanding of the problems caused by France’s occupation of Tunisia and highlights the significance of historical and contemporary urban space for the author. Revitalized during the nahda period, maq¯am¯at were employed by writers to address issues and problems facing contemporary society, in contrast to some of the earlier maq¯am¯at that focused on language and language structure
more than on narrative content. Suwaysi followed his eastern Mediterranean, especially Egyptian, contemporaries in turning to this genre to convey his critical commentaries on social, religious, and political life under the French Protectorate in Tunisia.